Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: New Members - Introduce Yourself skootb Mar 21, 2019 at 12:06 PM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread ButtUglyJeff Mar 23, 2019 at 5:44 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? (2nd Part) gepardcv Mar 23, 2019 at 4:47 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: Sony Event @ TSAV March 23rd 2019 netforce Mar 23, 2019 at 12:28 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Calibrating MiniDSP EARS Part 2 Josh83 Mar 19, 2019 at 5:48 PM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: APB: CA Atlas - @warrior Vansen Oct 29, 2018
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Sennheiser HD650 Dzerh Mar 23, 2019 at 2:45 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: My new $99 Full Balanced headphone amp toy Loxjie P20 Cspirou Mar 23, 2019 at 5:04 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: Sony NW-WM1Z/WM1A DAPs David De Lucena Mar 23, 2019 at 8:32 AM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: HD800 DTP mod - Quick, easy, but rewarding Ti_Leo Mar 12, 2019
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: SBAF DAC Talk II Armaegis Mar 23, 2019 at 1:09 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: CD Ripping Help winders Mar 23, 2019 at 12:54 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Schiit Sol Turntable Sneak-Peak Jalsar Mar 16, 2019
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Passive Schiit shootout: Saga vs. Freya vs. SYS Cspirou Mar 22, 2019 at 9:51 PM
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions yotacowboy Mar 18, 2019 at 4:23 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Piano problem SSL Mar 23, 2019 at 5:09 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Soups Mar 22, 2019 at 1:22 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: InEar ProPhile 8 Measurements and Review (Stream of Consciousness) Poleepkwa Feb 21, 2019
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Loxjie P20 technical measurements bilboda Mar 22, 2019 at 6:59 AM
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Matrix X-Sabre Pro Measurements Cspirou Mar 20, 2019 at 11:24 AM
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA2X - Nobsound NS-05P passive attenuator comparison technical measurements atomicbob Mar 12, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: Presumably this will help with the Schiit EU dealers clusterfuck bixby Jan 1, 2019
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Matrix X-Sabre Pro MQA cskippy Mar 23, 2019 at 4:42 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog geniekid Mar 20, 2019 at 7:54 AM
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: DG300b Build Thread tomchr Mar 21, 2019 at 12:56 PM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: Theta Gen Va - High-End DAC - EU Habano Mar 23, 2019 at 6:22 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: The Last Jedi Thread (with Spoilers) ColtMrFire Mar 23, 2019 at 6:38 PM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: Winter Sports World Walderstorn Feb 28, 2019
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Videogame Discussion Thread HeadFoneDude64 Mar 21, 2019 at 3:54 PM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW? protoss Mar 19, 2019 at 5:43 PM
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: The music we make Cellist88 Mar 19, 2019 at 6:31 AM
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) Lyer25 Mar 20, 2019 at 8:40 PM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: BMW 440i xDrive or Audi S5? luckybaer Mar 16, 2019
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: New Shanling M0 - Tiny DAP for 109$ Bina Mar 12, 2019
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Jan 23, 2019
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    3. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog EeePee Jan 7, 2019
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    4. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: March Madness at The Source AV! Luckbad Mar 23, 2019 at 1:25 PM
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    5. Eddie Current

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      Latest: Eddie Current Zana Deux S jeeperbge Mar 23, 2019 at 3:32 PM
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